Data Ideas Podcast

Avery Smith, Founder of Data Career Jumpstart, joins for a discussion on upskilling, trends in the data jobs market, personal branding tactics and more! Avery Smith on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyjsmith/ Data Career Jumpstart: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/ Avery's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@averysmith Data Career Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1nfBfEtCmuvJkPQgR3bS5a  

Nisar Ahmed is the creator of the BizNis Intelligence YouTube channel, which contains data education content as well as episodes of The Data Nerd Podcast (also available on all major podcast platforms). Nisar is also a data analytics course instructor and practitioner. He joins to discuss his advice for getting into teaching, as well as the impact content creation can have on one's career. Nisar's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/biznisintelligence/ BizNis Intelligence / The Data Nerd Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BizNisIntelligence

Sekou Tyler joins for a discussion on how to build SQL skills in 2025, what it takes to move up in the data & analytics field and advice for those considering consulting. Sekou's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sekoutyler/ Royal Blue Analytics (Sekou's Company): https://www.royalblueanalytics.com/ SQLSekou YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SQLSekou Sekou's presentation at Tableau Conference 2025: Salesforce+ Ten-Minute Tableau: Rapid Insights from DataFam’s Best Ten Minute Tuesday Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5RB4iGVGu9xxhCaeoCunxA

Collin Smith, Director, Data School Operations at The Information Lab US & the Accessibility Tableau User Group Leader joins for a conversation. Collin's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collinsmith106/ The Data School's website: https://www.thedataschool.com

Susan Walsh, The Classification Guru, joins to share insights on how & why to network, the importance of improving data quality and the impact of properly classifying supplier and spend data. Find Susan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanewalsh/ Check out Susan's Book "Between the Spreadsheets: Classifying and Fixing Dirty Data:" Amazon.com: Between the Spreadsheets: Classifying and Fixing Dirty Data: 9781783305032: Walsh, Susan: Books Susan's company's website, including more info on Samification: https://www.theclassificationguru.com/  

Quick walk through of why and how I (Dustin) create my weekly jobs rundown post published to LinkedIn. We will be back with another guest next week! My LinkedIn profile and posts can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinschimek/

Data practitioner and career coach Isaac Tucker-Rasbury joins the Data Ideas Podcast for episode 54. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuckerrasbury/ topmate: https://topmate.io/isaac_tucker_rasbury

Dustin Schimek presents on the latest trends in data analytics related job postings, during the "Data Jobs Report" session at the Data Careers Summit, held in February 2024. You can follow Dustin on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinschimek/

What are hiring managers looking to hear in interviews for data analytics roles? How do you best position yourself and your experience to get hired? This panel discussion explores the topic and gathers perspectives from those who have been hiring managers for jobs in the data fields. It was held at the Feb 2024 Data Careers Summit, and was moderated by Brandi Beals and Dustin Schimek.   Panelists include Tara Lauritsen and Brian Julius. More on each below: Tara Lauritsen is a results-driven data analytics leader with over a decade of experience consulting, leading, and developing all aspects of an end to end data life cycle. She specializes in setting the vision, establishing a strategic plan, and implementing that plan to build data excellence across an organization. She brings a people-first mindset and values all the relationships she has built in her career. You can learn even more about (and from!) Tara Lauritsen by following her on LinkedIn! Brian describes himself as a "lifelong data geek", having spent his entire 35-year career in business intelligence, policy analysis and implementation, economic consulting, litigation support, and survey research. He has worked as a data analyst, economist/data scientist, and in multiple executive positions leading data-related teams and projects, as well as developing and implementing recruiting and hiring strategies for data professionals. You can learn even more about (and from!) Brian Julius using the links below: Brian has an extensive collection of video content on the Enterprise DNA YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@EnterpriseDNA Also, be sure to follow Brian Julius on LinkedIn where he posts daily on Data Analysis, Power Bi, Data Careers and AI.

Cait Sojka and John Heisler give "lightning talks" on applied business use-cases for modern analytics at the Data Careers Summit on Feb 23rd, 2024! Cait's talk focuses on use-cases enabled by Alteryx that you can immediately get started with, while John's talk focuses on using SQL/data engineering skills and how to position yourself. More on Cait: Cait has provided more than 1000 students from 100 different companies with data analytics training. She is Tableau Desktop Analyst certified, a certified Tableau sub-contracted instructor, and is Alteryx Designer Core and Advanced certified. Cait is a member of the Austin Tableau User Group Advisory Board, is in the top 4% of Tableau Community Forum best answer leaders, and was a speaker at the 2023 Tableau Conference. More ways to follow Cait Sojka: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitsojka/ More on John: John's career path has meandered from neuroscience, to database administration, data engineering, data science, and data leadership. He is excited to have recently joined Snowflake as a Senior Sales Engineer for the Financial Services team. He is passionate about learning from his peers, sharing his experiences, and mentoring others as they embark on their own journeys. Be sure to follow John Heisler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jheisler/